Project description
A water-efficient method for clean champagne bottles
The traditional method of sparkling wine production requires long periods of bottle storage in natural caves, which causes unsightly deposits on the bottles. The following cleaning and polishing of the bottles, which is a prerequisite for their commercialisation, is often performed manually. This is a very wasteful process regarding consumption of energy, water and time. The EU-funded PPB project will assist Italian PRIMA - a manufacturing group specialised in the automotive, lighting and labelling sectors - in developing machinery for cleaning and polishing champagne bottles, based on a request of Moët & Chandon. An innovative solution is proposed based on dry and wet methods. With limited water use, this new system represents a clear competitive advantage, generating considerable savings in energy and water consumption, as well as having a low environmental impact.
Objective
Sparkling wine produced by the Champenoise method implies the use of long periods of storage of bottles. The bottles, due to long-time storage, are prone to defacements like iridescence, lime scales, or rust. These bottle defects do not affect the valuable content, but as a luxury product, the bottle needs to be pristine in its presentation. Today this tedious bottle cleaning and polishing work are done by hand, and when cannot be manually polished, this one becomes waste, out of the quantity of water and time consumed. Moët Chandon approached us to develop machinery to develop such work to avoid such work.
PRIMA develops new machinery in the market for the successful polishing of such a bottle in dry and/or wet methods with the use of little water. With this machinery (PPB), we see a clear competitive benefit for the client company as it we calculate it has the potential to generate 2.1M€ savings on the average large producer (500,000b/y) and 1.05M€ for medium-small producers.
PPB is a logical evolution for PRIMA - a manufacturing group in the fields of automotive, lighting, and labeling - to open a new business category and a new market positioning. Our expertise in manufacturing labeling machinery for bottles (www.primalabelling.it) will be used for a successful PPB manufacturing. Thus, we expect that PRIMA will lead to a new production line with a strong business capacity of 11M€ accumulated profit in 5 years of exploitation and the creation of 14 new working positions.
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H2020-EU.3. - PRIORITY 'Societal challenges
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SME-2 - SME instrument phase 2
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(opens in new window) H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020
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42015 Correggio
Italy
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